Malaysia pension fund plans to increase sukuk, bond investments

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MALAYSIA - Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund, the country's biggest pension fund, plans to increase its $1bn global sukuk programme by about 50% this year to meet government-set targets.

The Kuala Lumpur-based company, which manages more than 400bn ringgit ($131bn) of assets, will also start a $500m programme to invest in Asian bonds, Wan Kamaruzaman Wan Ahmad, general manager of t...

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